Creativity 365 vs. Mattermost

The fact we can add in a lot of different apps to use for editing, sharing or comparing it works well, I wish a lot of the apps we need to use to create content was already added to the app, but everything it offers encompasses exactly what we need to be efficient though, you just have to download each app

Mattermost is definitely appropriate for a growing company with team members spread out across the u.s. and Canada. It’s given me the ability to have access to anyone with the information I need or the ability to develop friendships, working relationships with people I otherwise wouldn’t have access to

Incentivized

• The apps are super easy to use.
• Creativity 365 software pack encompasses a wide range of functionalities, overlapping between each other to offer a complete toolset.
• It is great for capturing and highlighting important website contents with PDF Markup.
• Write-On Video is very helpful to spice up my videos and mash photos and videos together to create new content.

Incentivized

• Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com)
• I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun
• The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet.

Incentivized

• occasionally crashes, but not unlike other software I have dealt with
• Having to install all apps separately
• Slow loading time

Incentivized

• Basic features like custom status, collapsed reply threads are JUST rolling out - kind of slow for a workplace chat app.
• I don't really get the idea of Playbooks and Boards - there are better, dedicated tools for stuff like this and it's not so easy to turn off.

Incentivized

Mattermost works perfectly within our company as a way to communicate seamlessly. I have had no issues with the product and continue to use it often while on and off site. The mobile app allows me to continue to communicate with my team even when I don't have my laptop with me.

Incentivized

It's an extremely easy to use software, and I would recommend it to every company that is growing. I think they could improve their notification system, as it gets a little spammy sometimes and important notifications get lost. Also needs to improve the number of private chats that you are allowed to create.

Incentivized

I contacted customer service once and got my problem solved very quickly.

We have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed.

Incentivized

This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles.

Incentivized

I think Creativity 365 holds its own in this space. I think where we are at with all this new software is a very high baseline of expectation as it pertains to how successful these software applications can be. Heck, a cell phone can give you as much power as you need at times to master these things for your business, but Creativity 365 stands apart in how it executes what it intends to do, and for that, my team and I give it a full recommendation!

Incentivized

Unlike Slack and Discord, Mattermost is self-hosted and focused on security. I used Discord before for community management and much simpler and less secure operations. Slack is great, but the fact that is cloud based takes out a lot of its independence.

Incentivized

• The toolset has helped me to increase productivity. I have become more organized with my work due to everyday note-taking, and more efficient with my web-related tasks.

• The platform is adaptive to storage data center outages in case our cloud storage provider goes away, Mattermost still works with our local database. However, files couldn't be shared. We can switch storage to local temporarily; that's a benefit. Later it all syncs up to main storage.
• When our team switched to Mattermost from paid solutions, we had much savings and access to unlimited past messages and storage quota (we use our cloud storage provider)
• We have better visibility of our tools and other products running adjacent to Mattermost due to integration capability. We use it for notifications/ updates sent from other products.

Incentivized